 | Steven Mintz - 2004 - Страниц: 472
...situation that most southern whites favored. A delegate to the Virginia House of Delegates boasted, "We have as far as possible closed every avenue by which light may enter their minds. If we could extinguish the capacity to see the light our work would be completed."... | |
 | Peter Van Inwagen - 2004 - Страниц: 334
...Cornell University Press, 1998), p. 7. 282 Faith Confronts Evil Societal Evil, Slavery, and Social Death We have as far as possible closed every avenue by which light may enter the slave's Mind. If we could extinguish his capacity to see the light our work would be... | |
 | Evang. G. E. McTyre, Evangelist Evang. G. E., BHG McTyre BA - 2006 - Страниц: 140
...of Delegates in 1832, described the situation as it existed in many parts of the South at this time: "We have, as far as possible, closed every avenue by which light may enter their (the slaves) minds. If we could extinguish the capacity to see the light, our work... | |
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We have as far as possible closed every avenue by which light might enter their [the slaves'] minds. If we could •extinguish the capacity to see the light our work would be completed ; they would then be on a level with the beasts of the field, and... 
